If they really expect people to go 30 months without sex then they should provide medication that will reduce their sex drive.
I first read that as "modification", not "medication". I was wondering how you'd get a bunch of astronauts to agree to a Mars mission if they knew they were going to be made eunuchs first....
Check out the Olympus mrobe Mp3 player with 20 gig., 1.2 Megpixel camera and 3inch screen. $199 at some stores on sale. Some have seen it for $150.
Too bad it doesn't do video, either recording or playback. And from what I'm reading online, the 1.2 (cellphone quality) megapixel camera isn't much more than a gimmick. If Apple were to stick a camera on the iPod, they'd want to make it a quality one--and there's not much room left on an iPod to do that.
It looks to use CoreImage for it's image processing, which would be cool
If I read their website correctly, the best thing about using CoreImage for processing is that they can store multiple versions of edits to photos without actually saving a copy of the photo--just a datafile of the changes made.
Of course, you can only do limited editing this way, but Aperture isn't supposed to do Photoshop's job and probably never will.
Archos has had a portable media device that records video/audio from analog inputs for a number of years now.
Yep, and it's got a lot of features an iPod will probably never sport. Being able to record video from an analog source is something Apple probably will never do, because they're trying their best to play friendly with the media companies. Plus it's got a smaller screen, a focus on music and not video... but since Archos hasn't been selling their player nearly as well as Apple's been selling iPods, it's reasonable to assume that portable video just isn't there yet.
But despite what critics have said about TV on the iTMS, I think it'll be the next big thing. Sure, TV is free -- so is radio. What you get on the iTMS is commercial-free video, on demand, with no commercials. Sure, you can see the new episode of "Lost" on TV this week, but what if you missed last week's and didn't tape it? What if you want to watch a few episodes of season 1 without waiting for a DVD rental to get to your house? It won't replace TV or DVD by any stretch, but it fills in a gap in the viewing experience that's been there for some time. And hey--you don't need a new iPod to watch those episodes. They look pretty good on a 17" monitor, too.
I think it's safe to say that the iTMS/iPod combo and the Archos player fill two different niches--one's a system for video-on-demand, the other's basically a portable TiVo. The iPod has never been designed to record radio, and you can only record voice with a plug-in accessory -- it's a player, period. Let each device do its job well and there's room in the market for everyone.
This video format and conversion problem is a mess that will hold back the video iPod unless Apple fixes it by incorporating free, reliable, and easy video conversion in iTunes.
He's got a point. Quicktime Pro is a $30 upgrade no user should have to pay for just to do this job. iTunes can easily convert between MP3, AAC, WAV or AIFF -- it ought to do the same for MPG and MOV videos.
Apple should also include a stand with the video iPod, to get around the problem of holding the thing in viewing position for long periods.
This comment I don't get. It's supposed to be a portable video viewer, not a comfortable one.
The 12" i^HpowerBook is still at 1024x768. If this had been equally increased, I'd be very happy.
If that had been increased, you'd be squinting. 12" means "small and cheap" (relatively speaking), and if you want more resolution you're better off getting a bigger screen too. Be sensible.
At this point they're offering a low res version of the TV show for $48 a season.
Actually, it's $35 if you buy the entire season at once.
I think they need to offer several levels of downloads
Considering that (a) their current level scales up to my 17" monitor just fine, (b) you can't burn them to DVD anyhow, and (c) it takes about 15 minutes to download a 45-minute episode as it is, I'll take the current compression and love it. If I want it any higher rez I'll wait for the DVD box to come out, same as I used to do.
Free nightly news on iTunes, right after, or during the broadcast on the TV set.
You already get the news for free on the Internet in text format, and much faster than you'd be able to get a video download. Seriously, is it that much better for you to get your news from a talking head that you'd wait to download it rather than just read it now?
Comcast, Cox, Adelphia, etc. don't want anything to do with ala carte pricing at the channel or show level.
I wouldn't say that. After all, they make a lot of money with pay-per-view movie channels, which are essentially a la carte movie offerings (after you get the cable subscription, natch).
But so what? The cable companies don't own the cable channels, nor do they own the content they produce. It's up to the owners of each show to decide whether to offer it on iTMS or not, not the cable companies.
By following the steps in this tutorial, QuickTime 7 Pro will automatically create an.m4v file containing H.264 video and AAC audio that is optimized for iPod. iPod can play the following video formats:
H.264 video File formats:.m4v,.mp4 and.mov Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
MPEG-4 video File formats:.m4v,.mp4 and.mov Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
As long as I can put my own videos (e.g. recorded with a TV capture card) on the iPod, this is awesome. If it's for the store only, forget it.
You can add any digital video to iTunes 6 (and to iTunes 5?), as long as it's Quicktime-playable. Presumably anything you have in iTunes will then sync with your iPod. So yeah, it looks like any video you record yourself can go to your video iPod.
I got a Mac, and was not too surprised to see that iTunes 6 wasn't under Software Update. So I downloaded it from http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and had no installation problems, but when I started the new app it told me I needed to download Quicktime 7.0.3 -- from Software Update. Which didn't have it yet.
Fortunately, the Apple Quicktime page at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ did have it for download, albeit without any fanfare.
What amazes me is that Disney (owner of ABC), which was the last major media company to start selling DVDs, was the first company to provide downloadable video to Apple this way.
Granted their partnership with Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios was probably a big reason they agreed, but nevertheless -- this is a big switch (IMO) from the Disney I used to know. Hopefully it won't be long before other studios and networks see the download numbers for "Lost" and jump in. I bet if HBO can be persuaded to offer their shows on the iTMS (iTunes Media Store, now, I suppose), sales at the Store would skyrocket.
Pay-Per-View comes out after the DVD release, so everyone who wants the DVD for home viewing probably would have it by then. I can't really see the point to this.
Because not everybody wants to go to Blockbuster to rent a movie to find out if they want to buy it first. This lets them watch it at home, then decide they like it and buy the DVD that way.
Think about it, man. Not everybody sees the film in the theater first or uses the rental store. Many use PPV simply because it's more convenient, even if they have to wait a little longer to get their first look.
I don't think there's much of a chance of this kind of thing ever getting implemented.
Good, because there's only so much they can be expected to do. Asking the banks to enforce eliminating impersonators from the Internet is like asking Rolex or Prada to personally shut down all the street vendors in New York City selling cheap knock-offs of their products.
A phisher is basically the online equivalent of a con artist, someone who knocks on your front door or calls your home saying they're from XYZ and they need some information from you to get you out of some financial mess you're in. What can the bank do about that, other than tell you upon joining that they don't do things like that and they shouldn't trust anyone who tries it?
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...does it run Windows?
If they really expect people to go 30 months without sex then they should provide medication that will reduce their sex drive.
I first read that as "modification", not "medication". I was wondering how you'd get a bunch of astronauts to agree to a Mars mission if they knew they were going to be made eunuchs first....
...and not one Netcraft joke?
Check out the Olympus mrobe Mp3 player with 20 gig., 1.2 Megpixel camera and 3inch screen. $199 at some stores on sale. Some have seen it for $150.
Too bad it doesn't do video, either recording or playback. And from what I'm reading online, the 1.2 (cellphone quality) megapixel camera isn't much more than a gimmick. If Apple were to stick a camera on the iPod, they'd want to make it a quality one--and there's not much room left on an iPod to do that.
It looks to use CoreImage for it's image processing, which would be cool
If I read their website correctly, the best thing about using CoreImage for processing is that they can store multiple versions of edits to photos without actually saving a copy of the photo--just a datafile of the changes made.
Of course, you can only do limited editing this way, but Aperture isn't supposed to do Photoshop's job and probably never will.
Archos has had a portable media device that records video/audio from analog inputs for a number of years now.
Yep, and it's got a lot of features an iPod will probably never sport. Being able to record video from an analog source is something Apple probably will never do, because they're trying their best to play friendly with the media companies. Plus it's got a smaller screen, a focus on music and not video... but since Archos hasn't been selling their player nearly as well as Apple's been selling iPods, it's reasonable to assume that portable video just isn't there yet.
But despite what critics have said about TV on the iTMS, I think it'll be the next big thing. Sure, TV is free -- so is radio. What you get on the iTMS is commercial-free video, on demand, with no commercials. Sure, you can see the new episode of "Lost" on TV this week, but what if you missed last week's and didn't tape it? What if you want to watch a few episodes of season 1 without waiting for a DVD rental to get to your house? It won't replace TV or DVD by any stretch, but it fills in a gap in the viewing experience that's been there for some time. And hey--you don't need a new iPod to watch those episodes. They look pretty good on a 17" monitor, too.
I think it's safe to say that the iTMS/iPod combo and the Archos player fill two different niches--one's a system for video-on-demand, the other's basically a portable TiVo. The iPod has never been designed to record radio, and you can only record voice with a plug-in accessory -- it's a player, period. Let each device do its job well and there's room in the market for everyone.
This video format and conversion problem is a mess that will hold back the video iPod unless Apple fixes it by incorporating free, reliable, and easy video conversion in iTunes.
He's got a point. Quicktime Pro is a $30 upgrade no user should have to pay for just to do this job. iTunes can easily convert between MP3, AAC, WAV or AIFF -- it ought to do the same for MPG and MOV videos.
Apple should also include a stand with the video iPod, to get around the problem of holding the thing in viewing position for long periods.
This comment I don't get. It's supposed to be a portable video viewer, not a comfortable one.
The 12" i^HpowerBook is still at 1024x768. If this had been equally increased, I'd be very happy.
If that had been increased, you'd be squinting. 12" means "small and cheap" (relatively speaking), and if you want more resolution you're better off getting a bigger screen too. Be sensible.
Time for the internet to declare it's independance!
Internet = independence? So that's why zillions of teenagers are blogging their hallway conversations every day....
Perhaps with this technology we can have see-through cans and this will no longer be a problem
Finally, something to replace that inconvenient glass bottle they used to use all the time!
At this point they're offering a low res version of the TV show for $48 a season.
Actually, it's $35 if you buy the entire season at once.
I think they need to offer several levels of downloads
Considering that (a) their current level scales up to my 17" monitor just fine, (b) you can't burn them to DVD anyhow, and (c) it takes about 15 minutes to download a 45-minute episode as it is, I'll take the current compression and love it. If I want it any higher rez I'll wait for the DVD box to come out, same as I used to do.
Free nightly news on iTunes, right after, or during the broadcast on the TV set.
You already get the news for free on the Internet in text format, and much faster than you'd be able to get a video download. Seriously, is it that much better for you to get your news from a talking head that you'd wait to download it rather than just read it now?
Comcast, Cox, Adelphia, etc. don't want anything to do with ala carte pricing at the channel or show level.
I wouldn't say that. After all, they make a lot of money with pay-per-view movie channels, which are essentially a la carte movie offerings (after you get the cable subscription, natch).
But so what? The cable companies don't own the cable channels, nor do they own the content they produce. It's up to the owners of each show to decide whether to offer it on iTMS or not, not the cable companies.
Lost and Desperate Housewives are both ABC products
And ABC is owned by Disney.
As long as I can put my own videos (e.g. recorded with a TV capture card) on the iPod, this is awesome. If it's for the store only, forget it.
You can add any digital video to iTunes 6 (and to iTunes 5?), as long as it's Quicktime-playable. Presumably anything you have in iTunes will then sync with your iPod. So yeah, it looks like any video you record yourself can go to your video iPod.
I got a Mac, and was not too surprised to see that iTunes 6 wasn't under Software Update. So I downloaded it from http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and had no installation problems, but when I started the new app it told me I needed to download Quicktime 7.0.3 -- from Software Update. Which didn't have it yet.
Fortunately, the Apple Quicktime page at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ did have it for download, albeit without any fanfare.
Just an FYI for ambitious upgraders.
What amazes me is that Disney (owner of ABC), which was the last major media company to start selling DVDs, was the first company to provide downloadable video to Apple this way.
Granted their partnership with Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios was probably a big reason they agreed, but nevertheless -- this is a big switch (IMO) from the Disney I used to know. Hopefully it won't be long before other studios and networks see the download numbers for "Lost" and jump in. I bet if HBO can be persuaded to offer their shows on the iTMS (iTunes Media Store, now, I suppose), sales at the Store would skyrocket.
Might this only result in the Linux desktop becoming more like Windows?
It might, if the Linux desktop hadn't already been imitating Windows for the past ten years.
With Blockbuster's latest system, you can just keep your blockbuster DVD and pay them for it later.
But you still have to go to Blockbuster. PPV exists because you don't have to go anywhere.
Pay-Per-View comes out after the DVD release, so everyone who wants the DVD for home viewing probably would have it by then. I can't really see the point to this.
Because not everybody wants to go to Blockbuster to rent a movie to find out if they want to buy it first. This lets them watch it at home, then decide they like it and buy the DVD that way.
Think about it, man. Not everybody sees the film in the theater first or uses the rental store. Many use PPV simply because it's more convenient, even if they have to wait a little longer to get their first look.
...is the kind of discussion I expect in a Slashdot article. ;-)
How does one confuse a leopard with a puma, especially when the animal in question is not running, but lying dead in front of you?
Simmons, what have I told you about starting Slashdot stories about mythical animals?
I don't think there's much of a chance of this kind of thing ever getting implemented.
Good, because there's only so much they can be expected to do. Asking the banks to enforce eliminating impersonators from the Internet is like asking Rolex or Prada to personally shut down all the street vendors in New York City selling cheap knock-offs of their products.
A phisher is basically the online equivalent of a con artist, someone who knocks on your front door or calls your home saying they're from XYZ and they need some information from you to get you out of some financial mess you're in. What can the bank do about that, other than tell you upon joining that they don't do things like that and they shouldn't trust anyone who tries it?
Translated, I'm saying that technology across software domains should be consistent.
Two words: Office 12.